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Fame should be left to the film stars.

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Alexander McQueen
Age: 40 †
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Died: 2010
Died: February 11
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Lee Alexander McQueen
McQ
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If you're an open book, there's no allure.
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I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I think there is beauty in everything.
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Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
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The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.
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Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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